Forge: Denial of service in TLS record processing via a record interleaved with a fragmented handshake message

[ Description ]Official description

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used forge.tls.createConnection(), fragmented handshake message, interleaved record to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge continued processing after a TLS record of another content type interrupted a fragmented handshake message. A remote peer could trigger an uncaught TypeError in process(), causing the connection or hosting process to fail. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

• node-forge 1.4.1Fixed version · GitHub Advisories · npm package node-forge: upgrade to 1.4.1 or later (affected <= 1.4.0)

[ Packages ]Affected open-source packages

• node-forge npmAffected <= 1.4.0 · fixed in 1.4.1 · GHSA-8hrf-8g6f-7xwp

[ References ]References

• github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/700d977d39f9f8f896c55b0763eebb940a2c087e
• github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1
• github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-8hrf-8g6f-7xwp